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M
ore workers have access to paid family leave thanks to state programs that subsidize the benefit, but many don’t take advantage of it due in part to concerns about cost and their careers, or because they simply aren’t aware it exists, according to recent re
search.In the states with the longest-running paid family leave programs—New York, New Jersey, and California—just two out of five parents who were eligible for the benefit took it in 2022, according to an analysis published on Feb. 26 by Moms First in partnership with McKinsey. Parents left between $6,000 and $10,000 on the table by not